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THE BULLRING

Built at a cost of over £500 million, Bullring has brought over 26 football pitches worth of shops, boutiques and restaurants into the centre of the city. It has reintroduced some of Birmingham’s traditional streets in a stimulating, glass covered environment where you can shop, eat or just be.

Bullring isn’t just a shopping centre. It’s a new beginning for the city. It has introduced 3,200 more car parking spaces, improved public transport links and a refurbished Moor Street Station. And with a stunning mix of contemporary architecture and historic buildings, Bullring has completely changed the face of Birmingham.

We are sure that there are still plenty of things that you don’t know about Bullring. Here are just a few snippets of information that you may be interested to know:

Bullring provides over 110,000 sq m (1.2m sq ft) of retail space.
There are over 160 shops and kiosks within Bullring
3,100 new car parking spaces were created for Bullring (900 in Debenhams Edgbaston Street car park, 1,000 in Centre car park and 1,200 in Selfridges Moor Street car park).
Over 8,000 jobs were created within Bullring.
Over half a million pounds a day was spent building Bullring.
15,500 tonnes of steel are in Bullring – that’s a ¼ of the steel in the Empire State Building.
There’s approximately 90,000 metres³ of concrete within the new Bullring. This is enough concrete to stretch between Birmingham and Oban, Scotland ten times.
The following amounts of glass have been used in Bullring:

* Skyplane: Horizontal: 7,765 sq m
* Vertical: 2,200 sq m
* Structural: 2,381 sq m

Demolition of the old Bullring started the 30 June 2000, with completion in March 2001.
There were approximately 65,000 tonnes of concrete in the Old Bullring. During the demolition, the majority of the concrete went off site to a reprocessing plant. Small quantities have been retained to provide Haul Roads and Ramps.
Externally, there is 12,000 sq m of granite and internally there is 13,000 sq m of limestone.
The Bronze Bull situated in the square at the base of Rotunda is two and a half life sized and weighs 5T.
3 light wands are situated in the square at the base of the rotunda. These act as beacons and are 20, 25 & 30 meters in height.